this was a live episode of Ready Set Reiki What happens when we apply Reiki energy to life's most sacred transition? Kema Grace, an Usui Reiki Master, animal Reiki practitioner, and trained death doula working in Santa Fe, opens a profound conversation about energy healing at the threshold between worlds.
The journey begins with Kema's personal path through darkness toward light—from childhood homeschooling that fostered perpetual curiosity to finding healing through yoga, sound work, and eventually Reiki. Rather than seeing mastery as a destination, Kema spent seven years as a Level Two practitioner, embracing the philosophy that Reiki mastery represents commitment to a lifelong journey of embodying universal energy every day.
Most moving is Kema's work with animals transitioning at end of life. Through beautiful stories of connecting with pets in their final moments, we discover how Reiki shifts from attempting to cure to creating sacred space for peaceful passage. One particularly touching account involves facilitating a "life review" for a dying Chihuahua, guiding her through memories while easing her transition. This represents energy healing at its most profound—not fighting against natural cycles but accompanying beings through them with compassion and presence.
Looking ahead, Kema is developing a groundbreaking "Reiki for Dying" training that combines death doula principles with energy work. The course will address our relationships with mortality while teaching practical applications for supporting both the dying and their caretakers during transitions. In a culture that often dismisses grief—particularly around animal companions—this work fills a crucial gap in our collective healing.
Whether you're just beginning your Reiki journey or deepening an established practice, Kema offers wisdom applicable to practitioners at all levels: follow your heart's resonance rather than societal expectations, embrace the spiral nature of growth, and remember that true healing encompasses all beings—from humans to animals to the microscopic life within our bodies.
Ready to explore how Reiki can transform your relationship with life's most profound transitions? Visit www.unwavering-grace.com to connect with Kema's workshops, coaching services, and upcoming trainings.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Ready.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and all energy work,
from the curious beginner tothe seasoned master teacher,
welcoming all systems, alllineages and all levels.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on
this Ready Set Reiki journey, Irefer to myself as a guide, so
I'm Tracy Seawright, and this isReady Set Reiki.
Hello, beautiful listeners.
Welcome, tracy Seawright fromReady Set Reiki.
Well, today I have a wonderfulguest who's not too far away
from me, kema Grace.
(00:32):
Now he is an Azui Reiki master,an animal Reiki practitioner,
which I love close to my hearthere, and a trained death doula,
and among many, many otherthings.
He is based in Santa Fe, newMexico Now.
He currently works with animalsat end of life and uses Reiki
regularly to help guide theminto their transition.
(00:53):
They are also absorbing as muchexperience as they can to one
day begin to build a Reiki forDying course and training so
that others can learn thesewonderful modalities as well and
how the gorgeous universalenergy can assist those who are
going through the dying process.
So let's welcome to thiswonderful podcast of ours here,
(01:18):
Kema Grace.
Welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Hi, thank you, Good to see you All right well let's
start our wonderful journeytogether.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So a little bit of a bio here, but it comes so
beautifully from you.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So, as far as about myself goes, I am that's a
really good question.
I know I was expecting it too.
You said it in words.
Um, a little bit about myself.
I am a uh, a seeker of knowledge.
I think that's the first andforemost.
I think one thing that drivesme the most in the world is
(01:59):
having things I don't know andlearning about them.
Um, I was homeschooled as a kid, before I went to public school
, and so I think that helped merealize that learning doesn't
end every day, and so there'sbeen a lot of kind of darkness
and stuff in my life that I wentthrough.
I feel like I myself becameimmersed in my healing practice
(02:23):
through the initiation of firefor lack of a better term and
through going through darknessand experiencing the urge to
numb the experience,experiencing feeling like I
don't fit into this reality, inthis world, which was probably
true, because now, the worldthat we're creating, I'm like,
okay, this makes more sense tome.
(02:46):
The world that we're creating,I'm like, okay, this makes more
sense to me.
And so this long journey ofexploration, being in tune with
my imagination, and all thatkind of stuff, led me through my
darkness, into these healingpractices, and so it was from
yoga.
I did Kundalini yoga at firstand that introduced me to sound
healing, which I'm a musician,so that resonated with me and
(03:06):
that entered into the Reikipractice about a decade ago,
which one of my fellow soundhealers was my Reiki teacher,
and that led me to breath work.
That led me to death my death,doula certification, because I
have this kind of interestingrelationship with death my whole
life, and so that so it wasfollowing these breadcrumbs
(03:27):
along my path and I think thatbeing homeschooled for the
initial part of my life justopened the door to oh, there's,
there's gems, there'snourishment here in the world,
in every moment and every daythat I can absorb as far as
knowledge, wisdom, experiencegoes.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what to sayabout myself.
There's so many things.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There is so many things, and your journey is
similar to mine.
I started in yoga, right, andit's amazing how the practice of
yoga opens you up.
Right, you go through thoseeight limbs and moving on to
other modalities that led you towhere you are.
I love it.
I love it.
So we're here talking aboutReiki.
(04:09):
So when did Reiki come intoyour life?
Did you find Reiki or did itfind you?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Reiki definitely found me, I think so.
I'm a Leo sun and I have aCapricorn stellium, which, for
anyone that doesn't really knowabout that stuff, I have
Capricorn in four placements inmy chart.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And so yeah, but good thing, because as a Leo, it
keeps me a little bit grounded.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But as much as Capricorn does, and through my
sound healing practice isdefinitely I found my Reiki
teacher through that.
I am a very skeptical person.
That may be the Capricorn aswell, that where I'm like, okay,
I'm not 100% sure until I proveit to myself.
Sure, one of my friends hadmentioned that he started
learning Reiki and so my mycompetitive side kicked in and
(04:59):
so I was like, oh, you'relearning Reiki, I want to learn
Reiki too, and so I dove in in.
So it kind of found me throughmy friend Yusef.
But, um, yeah, we found eachother.
I I'd say we found each otherthrough that.
And and when I started learningReiki, it was very much
something where the symbols Imemorized immediately.
Everything was very familiar tome and so I was, and so it felt
(05:23):
like it definitely passed lifeexperience.
Um, so that was uh, very good,because my teacher was saying
she's like well, it wasn't likethat for me and so because you
have your own journey and soyou're like me, one of the
biggest pitfalls is you takeyour journey and you expect
everyone else to have the samejourney.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So for that, when you open your door and you're like,
oh okay, this is a completelydifferent journey that helps you
to relate that and to share umfrom the fun foundations, as
opposed to expecting people tohave the same foundations as you
.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right, right, and as you go through it and all your
learning and training, andyou're like probably coming
across things that you'veprobably been doing your whole
life, or symbols that, hey, thisis familiar to me and you
expect others to be like that,and they have like no clue what
you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, and with a few students that I've taught it, it
has been like, okay, you knowcertain symbols.
It's like none of the symbols.
I'm like you don't have tomemorize any of the symbols or
use them, but some of them arethe harder for other.
You know there's harder symbolsthat are more intricate than
others, and I'm just like don'tlearn it on your own pace when
(06:31):
it calls to you it calls to you,you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, and there's probably a couple that you use
more than others.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, definitely, and that's funny that you mentioned
that too, because now that I'mthinking about it, when I was a
child, I was in the mountains ofNew Mexico and all of my
imagination and playing fantasyworld.
I was always a cleric.
I was always someone thatwanted to use my energy for
healing.
So I think that as a child, itwas always resonating within me
that this was a path I wanted totake yeah and the same.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, as a little kid and even like when my children
were born, but I did it withprayer, like I was laying hands
on them or I go lay hands on acarpet.
It was with prayer.
And so, as I learned the Reiki,I'm like, oh my goodness, this
is things I've been doing mywhole life and I would doodle as
a child.
And then I would see the symbol, like, oh my goodness, this is
(07:21):
like I used to doodle this as achild.
I I'm like, oh my goodness,this is like I used to doodle
this as a child, I love thatInteresting.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So a zooey master teacher animal Reiki
practitioner, as you're outnavigating, as you're teaching
students, as you're learning andgrowing, as you're working with
animals.
What is the misconception thatyou have found that people think
about Reiki?
Well, one thing that's comingthrough again is in your
introduction, you mentioned howReiki is not a destination, it's
, it's a journey or somethinglike that.
I'm not sure if those are thewords you used, but for me,
that's the.
That's really.
When I did, I spent seven yearsas a level two practitioner
before I went into my mastery,and so when I stepped into my
(08:06):
mastery, the my master, theteacher that attuned me and
trained me as a master, is islocal here, and one of the
biggest emphasis, emphasis,emphasis is was that master in
Reiki doesn't mean you've madeit and you're this master and
you own this power, and, aboveeveryone else, it's that you're
(08:28):
willing to accept Reiki as alife path, as a journey that you
take in life, as something thatyou embody every day, as
something that you bring in andlearn from every day, and that
just resonates with me as well.
It can almost get to this placeof like inadequacy.
That's where I used to comefrom in my life, where I'm
learning, learning, learning.
I want to know more to beenough.
(08:49):
But now it's in this place ofthis growth consciousness where
it's just like it feels so goodto take this path and open in
this way and then open in thatway and to be able to share that
with people as well, because myhealing journey as I coach
people now it's all the stuffthat I've learned.
Now we can compartment, we canput it into a condensed form,
(09:11):
and so I think that's reallybeneficial and that's seems to
be what happens with Reiki andwith anything else in the world.
When someone gets a skill level, then that can be the
foundational level, kind of likethe plateau that people take it
from and elevate it from theirown perspective.
And that's what seems to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Right and kudos for taking the time.
I mean seven years.
We're in a time now where manypeople fly through it.
I know in my experience it waslike boom, boom, boom.
It was this fire energy, go, go, go.
Couldn't get enough.
But to take that time to reallymarinate on it right and take
(09:50):
your time with it.
You don't hear that as muchright now versus years ago where
there was that?
No, you had to wait a certainamount of time.
No, people waited years for it,and everybody wants that.
You know, take a class in fivedays, right, or?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Watch it online and you can be it in a couple hours
yeah, and I mean, part of thatwas also my skepticism.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Part of that was I was still proving to myself that
it was, that it was real to me,because I I'm not.
I'm more of a clear cognizant,so I'm more of a claircognizant,
so I'm more of a knowing energyand not as much fine-tuned in
the feeling, and so it's thisfaith that I've had to build
throughout.
Reiki is an act of faith to me.
(10:35):
To stand and to do this and totrust that, even if someone
doesn't feel something or theydon't trust it or they don't
know what it is or they arealready coming in with the
perception that they're notgoing to believe in it, to trust
that they received what theyneeded from it.
It's really a powerful,faithful lifestyle, in a way.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Right, right.
So, in addition to helpingothers with Reiki and being a
teacher, you help animals aswell through their pain and
suffering.
So helping individuals withtheir challenges and struggles
humans and for our babies whathas been a struggle or challenge
you faced in your own healingjourney.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
So there's been plenty of those.
I think that there's so growingup.
I was very different from thecommunity I grew up in, and so
one of the biggest things I doand that's where I focus my
coaching practice is helpingpeople who are I use the term
mold breakers but misfitsoutcasts I like to use more
(11:39):
empowering terms for thatHelping people like me, because
through my healing journey andthrough the practices meditation
, yoga, sound healing,breathwork especially breathwork
and Reiki it's been thechallenge of allowing myself to
land here on earth.
In a way if that makes sense,it's.
It's this disembodied feeling,walking on this planet in a
(12:02):
society that tells you thatyou're wrong for being who you
are Right, and to reconcile thatand heal that within yourself
is kind of like being an alienthat's coming and deciding to
truly move move to the move toearth, for lack of a better way.
So the healing has been to tobecome that mold breaker and to
own that and to learn about thespiritual laws and kind of be
(12:25):
like well, it is up to me how Iexperience and perceive this
planet.
So I'm going to come from love.
That's one of the biggestthings is how do you embody love
in a in a planet where fear istrending, and that's a really
bold, I think.
That's that is activism to me,to be to love.
That's the activism, the kindof warriors that we're seeing in
the world right now.
(12:46):
It's not about fighting withweapons, it's about owning our
love and our light in the faceof darkness and fear.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and it seems, more than ever, so many people
are coming to find modalitiesand those of us with modalities,
we're getting multiple ones.
You know you have like five or10 or 15 different things that
you're using.
So you know we have yoga, right, you and I have sound bowls, we
have animal Reiki, azui, andwe're just collecting all this
(13:13):
and then you're moving into, youknow you're into, like coaching
, and now you're moving into,you know, creating a course.
So all of these things, as yousaid, that foundation that you
know you're into, like coaching,and now you're moving into, you
know, creating a course.
So all of these things, as yousaid, that foundation that you
hit, that you can propelyourself to your true purpose.
So this is all parts of thepuzzle that's going to create
this really wonderful uh, youknow, um, offerings that you're
(13:36):
going to give to the world.
So it's wonderful, wonderful.
So, when it's time for you toget an energetic tune up, what
qualities do you look for in aReiki practitioner?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So my Reiki teacher here is pretty much embodies,
all of it.
She owns the metaphysical shopthat I do sound baths at, and
she is just so down to earth,grounded, real.
You know, she's straightforward.
I look for someone that isgrounded on this planet because
throughout the yoga, especiallyin the Kundalini yoga not
(14:07):
speaking anything against or foranyone everyone has their own
journey.
But back when I was takingseven years ago, it was this
what they call spiritualNovocaine, and I see that in
different yoga communities here,where people are emphasizing
the separation from the body,emphasizing the spirit and the
etherical, but not realizingthat this material world is part
(14:31):
of the spiritual experience.
And so what I look for issomeone that's really grounded
in the material world, that'spractical and she's really
powerful too.
She was the first person I tookReiki from.
That doesn't do touch Reiki.
I do hands-on Reiki and so goingto her.
It was just this differentexperience that also kept me
moving along the line oftrusting Reiki, because you know
(14:53):
you have to be in this wholeother realm of being able to
feel and experience and open tothat level.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Sure Did she give Reiki to the aura um, well, she
gave reiki to.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I know that she was in the akashic records, okay,
she said she was seeing a lot ofum contracts that I had being
signed, completed and filed bymy a guardian angel or something
.
So I guess that was a quantumakashic field kind of and it was
around the aura, but it wasalso very physical.
She said that she felt on thisside, which is really
interesting because I'm workingon a lot of masculine healing in
(15:27):
my life in the world, and soshe was saying she was taking
off armor on this side and um,so now it's been like this soft
and exposed but vulnerable, andand allowed to be that
experience Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Is she also a Zui?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
She's also a Zui.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Okay, does she do any other type of systems of Reiki?
As you, as you know, as you goout there, there's so many
different systems.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, and that's the funny thing is, that's where she
and I differ, is she keeps itwith Usui and I'm very much like
, oh, I, oh, what is this Reiki,what is this one Like?
I like to look at them, butshe's she and it's very
practical as well.
She's a Virgo, and so it's verylike this is effective, it
works and it's really all I need, and that's really great too.
(16:14):
She deepens her practice withUsui too, and it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Beautiful beautiful.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So what advice would you give someone who's just
entering this spiritual work?
Advice, let's see what advicewould I have given myself if I
was just entering my spiritualwork.
I think that one of the mostimportant things you can do is
learn how to follow your heartresonance.
Okay.
So what does that mean?
Follow what feels right to youor what kind of sparks that
passion, whether or not everyoneelse is doing it.
(16:45):
One good example of that for meis I don't resonate with I know
I've talked about astrology,but I don't resonate with
studying astrology to its bones,and a lot of people kind of
take that as, oh, if you'respiritual, you have to know
astrology.
So one of those big things iswhen you learn to follow your
heart resonance, follow thethings that resonate with you,
so the things that feel good inyour body or that spark that
(17:06):
passion.
The other thing is it's alwaysgoing to be seem like two steps
forward, one step back.
Sometimes it's going to feellike one step forward, two steps
back, and so when we cyclethrough, it's going to feel
maybe like a circle, but it's.
It's this spiral motion thatyou're taking as you go along
your journey.
So when you cycle through, ifyou're on your healing or
spiritual journey and you're inyour meditations or whatever,
(17:32):
and something comes up thatreminds you like you were five
years ago, trust that you'restill releasing some of that,
that you're not returning to it,that you're progressing through
more of it because it has to berevealed if it's to be healed,
and so if there's still morewithin you, you're going to see
more of it and face it and movethrough it.
So if you were relying on say,for me it was drugs and alcohol
do your best not to drop backinto your old habits of numbing.
When you face those times, diveinto your practice, dive into
(17:56):
your meditation, your rake reiki, your breath work and call on
that energy to help you movethrough it, to face it and
without bypassing it right,right, and you made an
interesting point.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You know, as a yogi, there's always that, oh, you
have to do astrology and I'vehad students ask me, like about
the moon and stars, and I'm likeI, I've not gone that deep like
I, you know, so theyautomatically assume that that
you know all of this and so,yeah, go with what resonates
with you.
And it's something I just kindof I glanced at a little bit,
(18:28):
but I didn't go down the rabbithole as much as, say, sound
bowls or, um, you know othersystems of reiki, so, yeah, yeah
, and they're more fun.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
they're just more fun to me, and some people find
astrology more fun, and that'sreally what it is.
Oh yeah, there's some arefantastic at it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, they light up when they talk about it and you
know, and it's like I'm havingtrouble, you know, keeping track
of what moon it is.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But the thing is, we feel it still, and that's the
thing too, if someone asks aboutthe stars and the cosmic cycles
, when we're clearing ourselvesout on the regular it's like
what am I feeling?
And I can explain what I'mfeeling Like right now it's
really a big Phoenix moment andthat's what I'm feeling in the
world that we're going through,yeah, yeah, and the whole
teaching this week has been likeshedding your skin.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You know that you're a snake right, shedding, letting
go.
So a lot of things arehappening, and it's in my
personal, but then in myteaching as well.
So, yeah, so you can feel it.
You can definitely feel it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh my gosh, I so someone starting their spiritual
journey, especially people who,if you're like me and you grew
up kind of taught that all ofreligion is evil, like I did,
which was funny because now I'veexpanded into like angels and
please kind of like that kind ofthing or if you were within the
(19:54):
religious scene and you'rebroke free from it or you were,
have a taste in your mouth.
The conversations with Godseries by Neil Donald walsh is
one of my favorite series forreally jump-starting your
spiritual journey, especiallyhome with god.
That one's close to my heartbecause I work with death and
that one's all about death andand the afterlife and all that
stuff.
Um the eckhart tolle.
(20:15):
I've always loved A New Earthfrom him.
It's kind of in thefoundational stuff as well.
Zen and the Art of MotorcycleMaintenance was my first step
into kind of exploring the waythe brain works after you read a
book of genius in a way.
So that's been one of myfavorites.
I read a lot.
(20:35):
I have a huge list down there.
I've been reading a lot ofPeter Carroll stuff these days
because I like to know moreabout the chaos, magic ideas and
whether or not I resonate withthem.
It is.
It's funny because it speaks toa lot of things that I hold
true in my heart.
And then, like, all thesepeople that write these books
are opinionated, and so I findthese opinions and I'm like,
(20:56):
okay, I don't really resonatewith that.
And that's the thing aboutreading these spiritual books is
you take what resonates andthen you leave what doesn't
resonate.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, and then you can turn around and you'll
create your own book, right?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So what services do you offer?
Do you offer classes, trainings, events?
Yeah, so I do single sessionsand package deals with my life
coaching.
So I do spiritual life coachingwith what I call integrated
(21:28):
energy healing, which is anintuitive energy healing
practice that just pulls fromall modalities.
And, as I said before, myclarifying focus within my
coaching is for mold breakers orpeople who suffer from trauma
within the outcast wound, soanyone that was outcast in their
life and deals with traumarelating to that.
That's what I focus on.
I am also launching onbeginning on the 30th of this
(21:51):
month, I will be launching whatI'm calling my revive workshop
and I'm hoping to do it everyyear, and this is specifically
four weeks focus on regulatingour nervous system and, again,
specifically for people who feellike they're being attacked in
the world right now, yeah, howcan we get out of survival mode
and back into creative mode andto be the divine creators that
(22:12):
we are?
And so it's practical.
It's going to be group coaching, integrated energy work and
breath work as well the powerfulbreath work practice I teach,
which I also teach on Saturdaysstill, my breath work practice I
train sound healers, mostly inperson, but I can do online, and
I do my Reiki trainings as well.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So yeah, a bunch of stuff do you um do Reiki with
your music?
Do you like play and recordthings and make those available
to listen to?
That's imbued with the Reikienergy you know I haven't yet.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I've just actually been getting back into my music
practice after the long journey.
I had to heal a lot aboutmyself and realizing but that's
a good reminder to do that I'vealways been interested in
writing songs.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, I mean, I know individuals that, like they sell
Reiki infused pens and Reikiinfused.
You know and I know someonethat plays the guitar and imbues
it with energy and records itand you can buy her little
recordings oh that's good, yeah,yeah, so when we do meditations
(23:21):
you can buy her recordings andthey're really reasonable too
and then you have it and thenyou can play it during your
meditation session.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh, that's great.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, so maybe some ideas there, so you're available
online and in person.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, so in person here in Santa Fe I do offer a
bunch of events.
I hold also a weekly death cafe, which is a free event, and
people come and have coffee andjust talk about death.
Okay, which people are like, oh, that's so morose, but it's
like the best experience, it'shealing for people that have a
fear of death, which is yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, how can people get in touch with you?
Do you have a website, social?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
media.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yes, I'm on social media.
I don't think that there's anyother chema graces on social
media, so you can just type inmy name.
I'm sure you'll find me onInstagram threads and Facebook,
and then my website as well,which is wwwunwavering-gracecom.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So Unwavering Grace, beautiful name.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And so on the website too.
The thing is that people cansign up, uh, with their email
and I send regular, semi-regularright now, um, what I call
oasis emails.
So it's going to be a lot ofstuff that is more inspiring and
thoughts, food for thought, aswell as discounts.
So anyone who's in my emailtribe, um, I'm going to send
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first first sign like discountsto my workshops.
Like this workshop that'supcoming, someone can get one of
the sessions on me for being apart of that emailing list.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So yeah, all right, beautiful.
Well, that ends the first partof our journey together and I'm
going to continue on as yourguide through the second part.
That are questions that aresent in by listeners and by
reiki students.
So, number one, you havestudied a variety of modalities.
Which modality is your go-to toreplenish your soul?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh man, you know, the thing is that with Reiki it's
just always available.
And so just all throughout myday I'm sitting there and I'll
place my hands on myself.
So Reiki is one of the big ones.
I think my number one and it'sthe number one thing that I
coach all of my clients issilent meditation.
I think silent meditation isthe foundational life experience
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, tuning into the soul.
One of the best things too iswhen I wake up and I may be
affected by some vibrationalfrequency who knows if it's
cosmic or within my body and I'mable to tune into where I feel
it in my body or my energy body,and just sitting in silence and
breathing and bringing myattention to that and it just
it's like massaging a.
As you know, it's likemassaging a knot out of your
(26:02):
body.
Just after a while you just sitwith it and breathe and it
alleviates yeah, it's veryinteresting.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You mentioned the word knot because I was reading
something yesterday because Ialso teach yin and yin was
talking about the chi.
You know the energy in the bodyand how it these.
You have these energetic knotsin the body.
You know and how to get theenergetic knots?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
out Interesting.
Maybe that's a theme that I gotto think of, so, cause it
happened yesterday and now it isagain today, so interesting,
and what's what's coming throughright now, too, is how many of
us are are tying ourselves up bytying ourselves, shackling
ourselves to our systems thatare broken or the old thought
patterns that we used to believein, that we never believed in.
(26:45):
It was someone else's beliefsand we just agreed to them yeah
interesting number two whatinspired you to become a death
doula?
yeah, so, um, I think that thefirst real I maybe as a kid I
had a real relationship and uhkind of understanding of death
when I was younger.
But, as I said, I went throughthis initiation of fire and in
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my dark times in my teen years Ihad a gone through a suicide
attempt and through thatexperience it was, you know,
part of the healing journey andI wouldn't I wouldn't replace
that that time for anything.
But, yeah, through that I alsogained more of a relationship, I
think, with death, lifting theveil and understanding the
(27:30):
illusion of ending that we gothrough and so later on, during
my healing journey, I wasmeditating one day and it came
to me to use my comfort andrelationship with death to help
others.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Beautiful, beautiful and you know.
Thank you for holding space forothers.
You know, and you're helpingthem guide them through their
own pain.
So thank you for that yeah, soso.
But you know I'm glad thatdidn't happen for you, and look
where you are now and how you'rehelping others, so you know
you're finding beauty in themess, right.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
All right, here's our next question Tell us about
your Reiki for Dying course andtraining that you are creating.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah so, and by creating it's the very
foundational, early, earlystages.
It's just a gem in my mind.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But my thing is so a lot of times when people who are
in healing practices or work gointo working with people at end
of life or animals at the endof life, we go in with this
perspective that healing equalscuring.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And when you're working with death, with hospice
which I work at an animalhospice, so it's a similar thing
You're not going in doing Reikiand expecting someone to be
cured from their terminalillness.
You're doing Reiki to assistthem through that process.
You're doing Reiki to help withnausea or pain If they're
suffering from that there's oneexperience I'll always talk
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about with this Chihuahua that Iwas doing.
She had this breathing thingcome up and I didn't really
consciously know that she wasgoing to die, but I sat with her
and did Reiki with her and Iwas showing her, you know, I was
reminding her that we loved herand we're happy to have her if
she wants to stay with us, butalso if she's done suffering, if
she's at the end of her journey.
I was showing her how to relaxher body, like just relax into
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it, just to let go.
And then through my mind itflashed this series of memories
that she had with us.
And so I was sitting with herand I was like, oh, we're doing
a life review.
And so I sat with her and wentthrough all this kind of stuff
that I remembered with her lifereview.
And so the Reiki with end oflife would also be how do we
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connect with someone that can'tcommunicate?
There was another one that wehad to sedate and help euthanize
, which she was just at the.
she was 18 years old, and justthat was the most humane thing
to do, and so she was just atthe, she was 18 years old, and
just that was the most humanething to do, and so she was
sedated and I was sitting thereand tuning in with Reiki, just
energetically, to her energybody, just to let her know that
we were going to let her go andthat this was the time, and to
(30:03):
have her say goodbye to thelittle, you know old dogs that
were around licking her yeah.
Yeah, so it's going to be a lotof that.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's going to be a lot of the comfort how do we get
comfortable with our ownmortality?
Oh yeah, face that with otherpeople.
So it's going to be a littlebit of the death doula work and
a little bit of the Reiki energywork as well to help get smooth
transition, hospice or insanctuaries or alone.
You know you're holding spaceand being with them.
I mean, you know I myself havesix and every time I've lost one
, you know it's losing a familymember.
I mean it really is, and youknow you have caretaker fatigue
(30:43):
and that Reiki can help withthat as well, and I mean even
you holding space, you knowbeing able to give Reiki to
yourself after that experience.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Right yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
My daughter works at a zoo and, um you know, when
there is a loss of the animal,it it affects everybody.
They bring grief counselors inyou know to help people sit with
them.
It's it's devastating thatthey're they're really invested.
So I don't think people realizewhat the vets go through.
Right, zookeepers go throughpeople that take care of animals
(31:14):
.
It's so hard to witness thatand hold space and they can't
talk back.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And yeah, it really is.
And it's just so under the rugin our society right now how
affected we are, like thereshould be bereavement leave for
people who lose their animalsbut they just have to go back to
work, and so they don't facetheir grief and do that healing
work, or or they feel ashamed ofit because society expects them
.
It's just an animal, and I lovethat we're switching that
(31:45):
perspective in this world andwe're seeing animals as, and
plants too.
I mean we don't get a soundabout plants.
But some people do really grieve.
When a big tree is, I reallygrieve with it.
But, like a lot of the animal,reiki is also for for plants and
land and that kind of stuff.
That, um, we don't.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
We're moving back into a perspective of of oh yeah
, symbiotic relationship withall of our creation I mean, you
think about it like children,they grieve when they lose their
goldfish, right or or theirhamster.
So it's an emotional thing.
I mean one of my dogs.
It was right on Valentine's dayhe had this pancreatitis attack
and it was like I droppedeverything.
(32:23):
I'm like, I'm sorry I had tocancel and it would have been a
few years ago.
The stigma of like, well, Idon't want to tell them I can't
come because my dog's sick.
But I thought at this point no,this is like a child to me.
So I got to take them to thevet.
Sorry, I got to reschedule.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, even that in like another funny thing and
yeah, and we should have thatspace.
I'm grateful that to have aself-built business so I can
give myself a space for that.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
But another thing that I was reminded of is that's
funny is I even Reiki andcommunicate with the bacteria in
my gut, you know, or theparasites?
Like when something comes in,I'm like, okay, you want to set
up house, set up camp in my body?
For now, that's okay, let'stalk about it.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And then I give them like an ultimatum, you have to
be out by a certain amount oftime, that kind of stuff I think
that's an interesting thing forpeople to think about.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
How do we talk to like?
There's billions of bacteriathat live on us and that are,
like animals, life forms that wecan communicate with?
And how do we build a healthyrelationship with that?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
yeah, that would make a fantastic article.
You should write an article ohyeah, that's so like you know,
when I read different, there's amagazine that ricky news and I
read through and it's just sofascinating.
Um, what people use reiki for,and I've not heard anybody
mention that.
So how, that shows you theendless possibilities.
(33:47):
You're only limited by yourimagination, so I would never
think of like, oh, let's talk tothat.
So how interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yeah, is it the IACRT newsletter?
Yeah, yeah, I get those too.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yes, reiki news yeah.
So yeah that would make a greatarticle.
Always good ideas coming fromthis I know right, I know right,
I love it, I love it.
Well, that is our last question, but I have a bonus question
for you, so I wanted to ask youhad mentioned that you grew up
in a home that wasn't veryreligious.
How does your family feel aboutthe yoga and the Reiki?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Now they understand it.
My mom has been on a spiritualjourney as well.
That is sort of parallelingmine especially.
They joined my breathwork classjust to support me.
They joined my sound baths, mybreathwork class.
Um, I've done reiki for both ofmy parents.
Um, my brother is a little bitless.
They're just what.
Maybe they consider themselvespractical, which is completely
(34:47):
impractical sometimes yeah butthey're, they're um, see it to
believe it, people, and that's,that's a great place to come
from, um, but they understandwhere I'm at and my journey and,
you know, as long as we're notharming each other or imposing
ourselves in anyone else's will,like that's the whole key,
isn't it To be able to acceptand embrace each other for our
(35:07):
beliefs and um?
And I think that I, you knowhow inner healing resonates
throughout the collective andthroughout the entire world, and
we're healing the family treeand the generations and the
ancestors.
So I know that if I continue onmy path, it's, it's opening the
doors for other people too.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Beautiful.
Well, that is our last question, and, as we were talking, is
there something you may haveforgotten or something that you
want to share with the listeners?
The floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I believe that I feel like I've covered everything.
Yeah, I don't think there'sanything else coming up.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
All right.
Wonderful wonderful and I mightadd that you know I've shared
that I have dogs and before westarted I had mentioned about.
I can always tell when someonehas really good energy because
of the dogs come in and they'reall out cold, they are snoring,
they're in a deep sleep, so theyvery feel very at home with
(36:02):
your energy.
So if you want someone whoworks with your animals, check
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Speaker 3 (36:15):
Check out Kama here, the your cavalier King Charles
approved.
I love that and, yeah, theanimal Reiki too it's it's um in
person or or distance as well,so you don't have to be in Santa
Fe for that.
And one thing also that I'vebeen putting my information out
there for is doing Reiki formissing pets as well missing
missing animal companions, andso if you know or see of anyone
that has a missing pet, sign up.
(36:35):
I can always call on the nameand kind of try to give them the
energy of guiding them home.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I don't know if it's the same way where you are
, even though we're pretty close.
There's so many dogs roaminghere.
I've never seen anything in mylife, just so many.
And I have a yoga studio andthere's four out there that are
just and I'm sure someone ownsthem, but day and night it's so
heartbreaking driving, and youknow I keep treats in my Jeep so
(37:03):
that I can get them out of theroad.
I just it's just.
I don't know if I'll ever getused to it and when I came here,
that's what inspired me to dothe animal Reiki to help be of
service for them.
So all right, well, thank youso much for taking time out of
your very busy schedule fortaking this journey with me.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
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This is.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and all energy work,
from the curious beginner tothe seasoned master teacher,
welcoming all systems, alllineages and all levels.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on
this Ready Set Reiki journey, Irefer to myself as a guide, so
I'm Tracy Seawright, and this isReady Set Reiki.
Hello, beautiful listeners.
Welcome, tracy Seawright fromReady Set Reiki.
Well, today I have a wonderfulguest who's not too far away
from me, kema Grace.
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Now he is an Azui Reiki master,an animal Reiki practitioner,
which I love close to my hearthere, and a trained death doula,
and among many, many otherthings.
He is based in Santa Fe, newMexico Now.
He currently works with animalsat end of life and uses Reiki
regularly to help guide theminto their transition.
(00:53):
They are also absorbing as muchexperience as they can to one
day begin to build a Reiki forDying course and training so
that others can learn thesewonderful modalities as well and
how the gorgeous universalenergy can assist those who are
going through the dying process.
So let's welcome to thiswonderful podcast of ours here,
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Kema Grace.
Welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Hi, thank you, Good to see you All right well let's
start our wonderful journeytogether.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So a little bit of a bio here, but it comes so
beautifully from you.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So, as far as about myself goes, I am that's a
really good question.
I know I was expecting it too.
You said it in words.
Um, a little bit about myself.
I am a uh, a seeker of knowledge.
I think that's the first andforemost.
I think one thing that drivesme the most in the world is
(01:59):
having things I don't know andlearning about them.
Um, I was homeschooled as a kid, before I went to public school
, and so I think that helped merealize that learning doesn't
end every day, and so there'sbeen a lot of kind of darkness
and stuff in my life that I wentthrough.
I feel like I myself becameimmersed in my healing practice
(02:23):
through the initiation of firefor lack of a better term and
through going through darknessand experiencing the urge to
numb the experience,experiencing feeling like I
don't fit into this reality, inthis world, which was probably
true, because now, the worldthat we're creating, I'm like,
okay, this makes more sense tome.
(02:46):
The world that we're creating,I'm like, okay, this makes more
sense to me.
And so this long journey ofexploration, being in tune with
my imagination, and all thatkind of stuff, led me through my
darkness, into these healingpractices, and so it was from
yoga.
I did Kundalini yoga at firstand that introduced me to sound
healing, which I'm a musician,so that resonated with me and
(03:06):
that entered into the Reikipractice about a decade ago,
which one of my fellow soundhealers was my Reiki teacher,
and that led me to breath work.
That led me to death my death,doula certification, because I
have this kind of interestingrelationship with death my whole
life, and so that so it wasfollowing these breadcrumbs
(03:27):
along my path and I think thatbeing homeschooled for the
initial part of my life justopened the door to oh, there's,
there's gems, there'snourishment here in the world,
in every moment and every daythat I can absorb as far as
knowledge, wisdom, experiencegoes.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what to sayabout myself.
There's so many things.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There is so many things, and your journey is
similar to mine.
I started in yoga, right, andit's amazing how the practice of
yoga opens you up.
Right, you go through thoseeight limbs and moving on to
other modalities that led you towhere you are.
I love it.
I love it.
So we're here talking aboutReiki.
(04:09):
So when did Reiki come intoyour life?
Did you find Reiki or did itfind you?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Reiki definitely found me, I think so.
I'm a Leo sun and I have aCapricorn stellium, which, for
anyone that doesn't really knowabout that stuff, I have
Capricorn in four placements inmy chart.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And so yeah, but good thing, because as a Leo, it
keeps me a little bit grounded.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But as much as Capricorn does, and through my
sound healing practice isdefinitely I found my Reiki
teacher through that.
I am a very skeptical person.
That may be the Capricorn aswell, that where I'm like, okay,
I'm not 100% sure until I proveit to myself.
Sure, one of my friends hadmentioned that he started
learning Reiki and so my mycompetitive side kicked in and
(04:59):
so I was like, oh, you'relearning Reiki, I want to learn
Reiki too, and so I dove in in.
So it kind of found me throughmy friend Yusef.
But, um, yeah, we found eachother.
I I'd say we found each otherthrough that.
And and when I started learningReiki, it was very much
something where the symbols Imemorized immediately.
Everything was very familiar tome and so I was, and so it felt
(05:23):
like it definitely passed lifeexperience.
Um, so that was uh, very good,because my teacher was saying
she's like well, it wasn't likethat for me and so because you
have your own journey and soyou're like me, one of the
biggest pitfalls is you takeyour journey and you expect
everyone else to have the samejourney.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So for that, when you open your door and you're like,
oh okay, this is a completelydifferent journey that helps you
to relate that and to share umfrom the fun foundations, as
opposed to expecting people tohave the same foundations as you
.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right, right, and as you go through it and all your
learning and training, andyou're like probably coming
across things that you'veprobably been doing your whole
life, or symbols that, hey, thisis familiar to me and you
expect others to be like that,and they have like no clue what
you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, and with a few students that I've taught it, it
has been like, okay, you knowcertain symbols.
It's like none of the symbols.
I'm like you don't have tomemorize any of the symbols or
use them, but some of them arethe harder for other.
You know there's harder symbolsthat are more intricate than
others, and I'm just like don'tlearn it on your own pace when
(06:31):
it calls to you it calls to you,you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, and there's probably a couple that you use
more than others.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, definitely, and that's funny that you mentioned
that too, because now that I'mthinking about it, when I was a
child, I was in the mountains ofNew Mexico and all of my
imagination and playing fantasyworld.
I was always a cleric.
I was always someone thatwanted to use my energy for
healing.
So I think that as a child, itwas always resonating within me
that this was a path I wanted totake yeah and the same.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, as a little kid and even like when my children
were born, but I did it withprayer, like I was laying hands
on them or I go lay hands on acarpet.
It was with prayer.
And so, as I learned the Reiki,I'm like, oh my goodness, this
is things I've been doing mywhole life and I would doodle as
a child.
And then I would see the symbol, like, oh my goodness, this is
(07:21):
like I used to doodle this as achild.
I I'm like, oh my goodness,this is like I used to doodle
this as a child, I love thatInteresting.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So a zooey master teacher animal Reiki
practitioner, as you're outnavigating, as you're teaching
students, as you're learning andgrowing, as you're working with
animals.
What is the misconception thatyou have found that people think
about Reiki?
Well, one thing that's comingthrough again is in your
introduction, you mentioned howReiki is not a destination, it's
, it's a journey or somethinglike that.
I'm not sure if those are thewords you used, but for me,
that's the.
That's really.
When I did, I spent seven yearsas a level two practitioner
before I went into my mastery,and so when I stepped into my
(08:06):
mastery, the my master, theteacher that attuned me and
trained me as a master, is islocal here, and one of the
biggest emphasis, emphasis,emphasis is was that master in
Reiki doesn't mean you've madeit and you're this master and
you own this power, and, aboveeveryone else, it's that you're
(08:28):
willing to accept Reiki as alife path, as a journey that you
take in life, as something thatyou embody every day, as
something that you bring in andlearn from every day, and that
just resonates with me as well.
It can almost get to this placeof like inadequacy.
That's where I used to comefrom in my life, where I'm
learning, learning, learning.
I want to know more to beenough.
(08:49):
But now it's in this place ofthis growth consciousness where
it's just like it feels so goodto take this path and open in
this way and then open in thatway and to be able to share that
with people as well, because myhealing journey as I coach
people now it's all the stuffthat I've learned.
Now we can compartment, we canput it into a condensed form,
(09:11):
and so I think that's reallybeneficial and that's seems to
be what happens with Reiki andwith anything else in the world.
When someone gets a skill level, then that can be the
foundational level, kind of likethe plateau that people take it
from and elevate it from theirown perspective.
And that's what seems to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Right and kudos for taking the time.
I mean seven years.
We're in a time now where manypeople fly through it.
I know in my experience it waslike boom, boom, boom.
It was this fire energy, go, go, go.
Couldn't get enough.
But to take that time to reallymarinate on it right and take
(09:50):
your time with it.
You don't hear that as muchright now versus years ago where
there was that?
No, you had to wait a certainamount of time.
No, people waited years for it,and everybody wants that.
You know, take a class in fivedays, right, or?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Watch it online and you can be it in a couple hours
yeah, and I mean, part of thatwas also my skepticism.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Part of that was I was still proving to myself that
it was, that it was real to me,because I I'm not.
I'm more of a clear cognizant,so I'm more of a claircognizant,
so I'm more of a knowing energyand not as much fine-tuned in
the feeling, and so it's thisfaith that I've had to build
throughout.
Reiki is an act of faith to me.
(10:35):
To stand and to do this and totrust that, even if someone
doesn't feel something or theydon't trust it or they don't
know what it is or they arealready coming in with the
perception that they're notgoing to believe in it, to trust
that they received what theyneeded from it.
It's really a powerful,faithful lifestyle, in a way.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Right, right.
So, in addition to helpingothers with Reiki and being a
teacher, you help animals aswell through their pain and
suffering.
So helping individuals withtheir challenges and struggles
humans and for our babies whathas been a struggle or challenge
you faced in your own healingjourney.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
So there's been plenty of those.
I think that there's so growingup.
I was very different from thecommunity I grew up in, and so
one of the biggest things I doand that's where I focus my
coaching practice is helpingpeople who are I use the term
mold breakers but misfitsoutcasts I like to use more
(11:39):
empowering terms for thatHelping people like me, because
through my healing journey andthrough the practices meditation
, yoga, sound healing,breathwork especially breathwork
and Reiki it's been thechallenge of allowing myself to
land here on earth.
In a way if that makes sense,it's.
It's this disembodied feeling,walking on this planet in a
(12:02):
society that tells you thatyou're wrong for being who you
are Right, and to reconcile thatand heal that within yourself
is kind of like being an alienthat's coming and deciding to
truly move move to the move toearth, for lack of a better way.
So the healing has been to tobecome that mold breaker and to
own that and to learn about thespiritual laws and kind of be
(12:25):
like well, it is up to me how Iexperience and perceive this
planet.
So I'm going to come from love.
That's one of the biggestthings is how do you embody love
in a in a planet where fear istrending, and that's a really
bold, I think.
That's that is activism to me,to be to love.
That's the activism, the kindof warriors that we're seeing in
the world right now.
(12:46):
It's not about fighting withweapons, it's about owning our
love and our light in the faceof darkness and fear.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and it seems, more than ever, so many people
are coming to find modalitiesand those of us with modalities,
we're getting multiple ones.
You know you have like five or10 or 15 different things that
you're using.
So you know we have yoga, right, you and I have sound bowls, we
have animal Reiki, azui, andwe're just collecting all this
(13:13):
and then you're moving into, youknow you're into, like coaching
, and now you're moving into,you know, creating a course.
So all of these things, as yousaid, that foundation that you
know you're into, like coaching,and now you're moving into, you
know, creating a course.
So all of these things, as yousaid, that foundation that you
hit, that you can propelyourself to your true purpose.
So this is all parts of thepuzzle that's going to create
this really wonderful uh, youknow, um, offerings that you're
(13:36):
going to give to the world.
So it's wonderful, wonderful.
So, when it's time for you toget an energetic tune up, what
qualities do you look for in aReiki practitioner?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So my Reiki teacher here is pretty much embodies,
all of it.
She owns the metaphysical shopthat I do sound baths at, and
she is just so down to earth,grounded, real.
You know, she's straightforward.
I look for someone that isgrounded on this planet because
throughout the yoga, especiallyin the Kundalini yoga not
(14:07):
speaking anything against or foranyone everyone has their own
journey.
But back when I was takingseven years ago, it was this
what they call spiritualNovocaine, and I see that in
different yoga communities here,where people are emphasizing
the separation from the body,emphasizing the spirit and the
etherical, but not realizingthat this material world is part
(14:31):
of the spiritual experience.
And so what I look for issomeone that's really grounded
in the material world, that'spractical and she's really
powerful too.
She was the first person I tookReiki from.
That doesn't do touch Reiki.
I do hands-on Reiki and so goingto her.
It was just this differentexperience that also kept me
moving along the line oftrusting Reiki, because you know
(14:53):
you have to be in this wholeother realm of being able to
feel and experience and open tothat level.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Sure Did she give Reiki to the aura um, well, she
gave reiki to.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I know that she was in the akashic records, okay,
she said she was seeing a lot ofum contracts that I had being
signed, completed and filed bymy a guardian angel or something
.
So I guess that was a quantumakashic field kind of and it was
around the aura, but it wasalso very physical.
She said that she felt on thisside, which is really
interesting because I'm workingon a lot of masculine healing in
(15:27):
my life in the world, and soshe was saying she was taking
off armor on this side and um,so now it's been like this soft
and exposed but vulnerable, andand allowed to be that
experience Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Is she also a Zui?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
She's also a Zui.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Okay, does she do any other type of systems of Reiki?
As you, as you know, as you goout there, there's so many
different systems.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, and that's the funny thing is, that's where she
and I differ, is she keeps itwith Usui and I'm very much like
, oh, I, oh, what is this Reiki,what is this one Like?
I like to look at them, butshe's she and it's very
practical as well.
She's a Virgo, and so it's verylike this is effective, it
works and it's really all I need, and that's really great too.
(16:14):
She deepens her practice withUsui too, and it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Beautiful beautiful.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So what advice would you give someone who's just
entering this spiritual work?
Advice, let's see what advicewould I have given myself if I
was just entering my spiritualwork.
I think that one of the mostimportant things you can do is
learn how to follow your heartresonance.
Okay.
So what does that mean?
Follow what feels right to youor what kind of sparks that
passion, whether or not everyoneelse is doing it.
(16:45):
One good example of that for meis I don't resonate with I know
I've talked about astrology,but I don't resonate with
studying astrology to its bones,and a lot of people kind of
take that as, oh, if you'respiritual, you have to know
astrology.
So one of those big things iswhen you learn to follow your
heart resonance, follow thethings that resonate with you,
so the things that feel good inyour body or that spark that
(17:06):
passion.
The other thing is it's alwaysgoing to be seem like two steps
forward, one step back.
Sometimes it's going to feellike one step forward, two steps
back, and so when we cyclethrough, it's going to feel
maybe like a circle, but it's.
It's this spiral motion thatyou're taking as you go along
your journey.
So when you cycle through, ifyou're on your healing or
spiritual journey and you're inyour meditations or whatever,
(17:32):
and something comes up thatreminds you like you were five
years ago, trust that you'restill releasing some of that,
that you're not returning to it,that you're progressing through
more of it because it has to berevealed if it's to be healed,
and so if there's still morewithin you, you're going to see
more of it and face it and movethrough it.
So if you were relying on say,for me it was drugs and alcohol
do your best not to drop backinto your old habits of numbing.
When you face those times, diveinto your practice, dive into
(17:56):
your meditation, your rake reiki, your breath work and call on
that energy to help you movethrough it, to face it and
without bypassing it right,right, and you made an
interesting point.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You know, as a yogi, there's always that, oh, you
have to do astrology and I'vehad students ask me, like about
the moon and stars, and I'm likeI, I've not gone that deep like
I, you know, so theyautomatically assume that that
you know all of this and so,yeah, go with what resonates
with you.
And it's something I just kindof I glanced at a little bit,
(18:28):
but I didn't go down the rabbithole as much as, say, sound
bowls or, um, you know othersystems of reiki, so, yeah, yeah
, and they're more fun.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
they're just more fun to me, and some people find
astrology more fun, and that'sreally what it is.
Oh yeah, there's some arefantastic at it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, they light up when they talk about it and you
know, and it's like I'm havingtrouble, you know, keeping track
of what moon it is.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But the thing is, we feel it still, and that's the
thing too, if someone asks aboutthe stars and the cosmic cycles
, when we're clearing ourselvesout on the regular it's like
what am I feeling?
And I can explain what I'mfeeling Like right now it's
really a big Phoenix moment andthat's what I'm feeling in the
world that we're going through,yeah, yeah, and the whole
teaching this week has been likeshedding your skin.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You know that you're a snake right, shedding, letting
go.
So a lot of things arehappening, and it's in my
personal, but then in myteaching as well.
So, yeah, so you can feel it.
You can definitely feel it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh my gosh, I so someone starting their spiritual
journey, especially people who,if you're like me and you grew
up kind of taught that all ofreligion is evil, like I did,
which was funny because now I'veexpanded into like angels and
please kind of like that kind ofthing or if you were within the
(19:54):
religious scene and you'rebroke free from it or you were,
have a taste in your mouth.
The conversations with Godseries by Neil Donald walsh is
one of my favorite series forreally jump-starting your
spiritual journey, especiallyhome with god.
That one's close to my heartbecause I work with death and
that one's all about death andand the afterlife and all that
stuff.
Um the eckhart tolle.
(20:15):
I've always loved A New Earthfrom him.
It's kind of in thefoundational stuff as well.
Zen and the Art of MotorcycleMaintenance was my first step
into kind of exploring the waythe brain works after you read a
book of genius in a way.
So that's been one of myfavorites.
I read a lot.
(20:35):
I have a huge list down there.
I've been reading a lot ofPeter Carroll stuff these days
because I like to know moreabout the chaos, magic ideas and
whether or not I resonate withthem.
It is.
It's funny because it speaks toa lot of things that I hold
true in my heart.
And then, like, all thesepeople that write these books
are opinionated, and so I findthese opinions and I'm like,
(20:56):
okay, I don't really resonatewith that.
And that's the thing aboutreading these spiritual books is
you take what resonates andthen you leave what doesn't
resonate.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, and then you can turn around and you'll
create your own book, right?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So what services do you offer?
Do you offer classes, trainings, events?
Yeah, so I do single sessionsand package deals with my life
coaching.
So I do spiritual life coachingwith what I call integrated
(21:28):
energy healing, which is anintuitive energy healing
practice that just pulls fromall modalities.
And, as I said before, myclarifying focus within my
coaching is for mold breakers orpeople who suffer from trauma
within the outcast wound, soanyone that was outcast in their
life and deals with traumarelating to that.
That's what I focus on.
I am also launching onbeginning on the 30th of this
(21:51):
month, I will be launching whatI'm calling my revive workshop
and I'm hoping to do it everyyear, and this is specifically
four weeks focus on regulatingour nervous system and, again,
specifically for people who feellike they're being attacked in
the world right now, yeah, howcan we get out of survival mode
and back into creative mode andto be the divine creators that
(22:12):
we are?
And so it's practical.
It's going to be group coaching, integrated energy work and
breath work as well the powerfulbreath work practice I teach,
which I also teach on Saturdaysstill, my breath work practice I
train sound healers, mostly inperson, but I can do online, and
I do my Reiki trainings as well.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So yeah, a bunch of stuff do you um do Reiki with
your music?
Do you like play and recordthings and make those available
to listen to?
That's imbued with the Reikienergy you know I haven't yet.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I've just actually been getting back into my music
practice after the long journey.
I had to heal a lot aboutmyself and realizing but that's
a good reminder to do that I'vealways been interested in
writing songs.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, I mean, I know individuals that, like they sell
Reiki infused pens and Reikiinfused.
You know and I know someonethat plays the guitar and imbues
it with energy and records itand you can buy her little
recordings oh that's good, yeah,yeah, so when we do meditations
(23:21):
you can buy her recordings andthey're really reasonable too
and then you have it and thenyou can play it during your
meditation session.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh, that's great.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, so maybe some ideas there, so you're available
online and in person.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, so in person here in Santa Fe I do offer a
bunch of events.
I hold also a weekly death cafe, which is a free event, and
people come and have coffee andjust talk about death.
Okay, which people are like, oh, that's so morose, but it's
like the best experience, it'shealing for people that have a
fear of death, which is yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, how can people get in touch with you?
Do you have a website, social?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
media.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yes, I'm on social media.
I don't think that there's anyother chema graces on social
media, so you can just type inmy name.
I'm sure you'll find me onInstagram threads and Facebook,
and then my website as well,which is wwwunwavering-gracecom.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So Unwavering Grace, beautiful name.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And so on the website too.
The thing is that people cansign up, uh, with their email
and I send regular, semi-regularright now, um, what I call
oasis emails.
So it's going to be a lot ofstuff that is more inspiring and
thoughts, food for thought, aswell as discounts.
So anyone who's in my emailtribe, um, I'm going to send
(24:47):
first first sign like discountsto my workshops.
Like this workshop that'supcoming, someone can get one of
the sessions on me for being apart of that emailing list.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So yeah, all right, beautiful.
Well, that ends the first partof our journey together and I'm
going to continue on as yourguide through the second part.
That are questions that aresent in by listeners and by
reiki students.
So, number one, you havestudied a variety of modalities.
Which modality is your go-to toreplenish your soul?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh man, you know, the thing is that with Reiki it's
just always available.
And so just all throughout myday I'm sitting there and I'll
place my hands on myself.
So Reiki is one of the big ones.
I think my number one and it'sthe number one thing that I
coach all of my clients issilent meditation.
I think silent meditation isthe foundational life experience
(25:39):
, tuning into the soul.
One of the best things too iswhen I wake up and I may be
affected by some vibrationalfrequency who knows if it's
cosmic or within my body and I'mable to tune into where I feel
it in my body or my energy body,and just sitting in silence and
breathing and bringing myattention to that and it just
it's like massaging a.
As you know, it's likemassaging a knot out of your
(26:02):
body.
Just after a while you just sitwith it and breathe and it
alleviates yeah, it's veryinteresting.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You mentioned the word knot because I was reading
something yesterday because Ialso teach yin and yin was
talking about the chi.
You know the energy in the bodyand how it these.
You have these energetic knotsin the body.
You know and how to get theenergetic knots?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
out Interesting.
Maybe that's a theme that I gotto think of, so, cause it
happened yesterday and now it isagain today, so interesting,
and what's what's coming throughright now, too, is how many of
us are are tying ourselves up bytying ourselves, shackling
ourselves to our systems thatare broken or the old thought
patterns that we used to believein, that we never believed in.
(26:45):
It was someone else's beliefsand we just agreed to them yeah
interesting number two whatinspired you to become a death
doula?
yeah, so, um, I think that thefirst real I maybe as a kid I
had a real relationship and uhkind of understanding of death
when I was younger.
But, as I said, I went throughthis initiation of fire and in
(27:09):
my dark times in my teen years Ihad a gone through a suicide
attempt and through thatexperience it was, you know,
part of the healing journey andI wouldn't I wouldn't replace
that that time for anything.
But, yeah, through that I alsogained more of a relationship, I
think, with death, lifting theveil and understanding the
(27:30):
illusion of ending that we gothrough and so later on, during
my healing journey, I wasmeditating one day and it came
to me to use my comfort andrelationship with death to help
others.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Beautiful, beautiful and you know.
Thank you for holding space forothers.
You know, and you're helpingthem guide them through their
own pain.
So thank you for that yeah, soso.
But you know I'm glad thatdidn't happen for you, and look
where you are now and how you'rehelping others, so you know
you're finding beauty in themess, right.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
All right, here's our next question Tell us about
your Reiki for Dying course andtraining that you are creating.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah so, and by creating it's the very
foundational, early, earlystages.
It's just a gem in my mind.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But my thing is so a lot of times when people who are
in healing practices or work gointo working with people at end
of life or animals at the endof life, we go in with this
perspective that healing equalscuring.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And when you're working with death, with hospice
which I work at an animalhospice, so it's a similar thing
You're not going in doing Reikiand expecting someone to be
cured from their terminalillness.
You're doing Reiki to assistthem through that process.
You're doing Reiki to help withnausea or pain If they're
suffering from that there's oneexperience I'll always talk
(28:55):
about with this Chihuahua that Iwas doing.
She had this breathing thingcome up and I didn't really
consciously know that she wasgoing to die, but I sat with her
and did Reiki with her and Iwas showing her, you know, I was
reminding her that we loved herand we're happy to have her if
she wants to stay with us, butalso if she's done suffering, if
she's at the end of her journey.
I was showing her how to relaxher body, like just relax into
(29:20):
it, just to let go.
And then through my mind itflashed this series of memories
that she had with us.
And so I was sitting with herand I was like, oh, we're doing
a life review.
And so I sat with her and wentthrough all this kind of stuff
that I remembered with her lifereview.
And so the Reiki with end oflife would also be how do we
(29:41):
connect with someone that can'tcommunicate?
There was another one that wehad to sedate and help euthanize
, which she was just at the.
she was 18 years old, and justthat was the most humane thing
to do, and so she was just atthe, she was 18 years old, and
just that was the most humanething to do, and so she was
sedated and I was sitting thereand tuning in with Reiki, just
energetically, to her energybody, just to let her know that
we were going to let her go andthat this was the time, and to
(30:03):
have her say goodbye to thelittle, you know old dogs that
were around licking her yeah.
Yeah, so it's going to be a lotof that.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's going to be a lot of the comfort how do we get
comfortable with our ownmortality?
Oh yeah, face that with otherpeople.
So it's going to be a littlebit of the death doula work and
a little bit of the Reiki energywork as well to help get smooth
transition, hospice or insanctuaries or alone.
You know you're holding spaceand being with them.
I mean, you know I myself havesix and every time I've lost one
, you know it's losing a familymember.
I mean it really is, and youknow you have caretaker fatigue
(30:43):
and that Reiki can help withthat as well, and I mean even
you holding space, you knowbeing able to give Reiki to
yourself after that experience.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Right yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
My daughter works at a zoo and, um you know, when
there is a loss of the animal,it it affects everybody.
They bring grief counselors inyou know to help people sit with
them.
It's it's devastating thatthey're they're really invested.
So I don't think people realizewhat the vets go through.
Right, zookeepers go throughpeople that take care of animals
(31:14):
.
It's so hard to witness thatand hold space and they can't
talk back.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And yeah, it really is.
And it's just so under the rugin our society right now how
affected we are, like thereshould be bereavement leave for
people who lose their animalsbut they just have to go back to
work, and so they don't facetheir grief and do that healing
work, or or they feel ashamed ofit because society expects them
.
It's just an animal, and I lovethat we're switching that
(31:45):
perspective in this world andwe're seeing animals as, and
plants too.
I mean we don't get a soundabout plants.
But some people do really grieve.
When a big tree is, I reallygrieve with it.
But, like a lot of the animal,reiki is also for for plants and
land and that kind of stuff.
That, um, we don't.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
We're moving back into a perspective of of oh yeah
, symbiotic relationship withall of our creation I mean, you
think about it like children,they grieve when they lose their
goldfish, right or or theirhamster.
So it's an emotional thing.
I mean one of my dogs.
It was right on Valentine's dayhe had this pancreatitis attack
and it was like I droppedeverything.
(32:23):
I'm like, I'm sorry I had tocancel and it would have been a
few years ago.
The stigma of like, well, Idon't want to tell them I can't
come because my dog's sick.
But I thought at this point no,this is like a child to me.
So I got to take them to thevet.
Sorry, I got to reschedule.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, even that in like another funny thing and
yeah, and we should have thatspace.
I'm grateful that to have aself-built business so I can
give myself a space for that.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
But another thing that I was reminded of is that's
funny is I even Reiki andcommunicate with the bacteria in
my gut, you know, or theparasites?
Like when something comes in,I'm like, okay, you want to set
up house, set up camp in my body?
For now, that's okay, let'stalk about it.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And then I give them like an ultimatum, you have to
be out by a certain amount oftime, that kind of stuff I think
that's an interesting thing forpeople to think about.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
How do we talk to like?
There's billions of bacteriathat live on us and that are,
like animals, life forms that wecan communicate with?
And how do we build a healthyrelationship with that?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
yeah, that would make a fantastic article.
You should write an article ohyeah, that's so like you know,
when I read different, there's amagazine that ricky news and I
read through and it's just sofascinating.
Um, what people use reiki for,and I've not heard anybody
mention that.
So how, that shows you theendless possibilities.
(33:47):
You're only limited by yourimagination, so I would never
think of like, oh, let's talk tothat.
So how interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yeah, is it the IACRT newsletter?
Yeah, yeah, I get those too.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yes, reiki news yeah.
So yeah that would make a greatarticle.
Always good ideas coming fromthis I know right, I know right,
I love it, I love it.
Well, that is our last question, but I have a bonus question
for you, so I wanted to ask youhad mentioned that you grew up
in a home that wasn't veryreligious.
How does your family feel aboutthe yoga and the Reiki?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Now they understand it.
My mom has been on a spiritualjourney as well.
That is sort of parallelingmine especially.
They joined my breathwork classjust to support me.
They joined my sound baths, mybreathwork class.
Um, I've done reiki for both ofmy parents.
Um, my brother is a little bitless.
They're just what.
Maybe they consider themselvespractical, which is completely
(34:47):
impractical sometimes yeah butthey're, they're um, see it to
believe it, people, and that's,that's a great place to come
from, um, but they understandwhere I'm at and my journey and,
you know, as long as we're notharming each other or imposing
ourselves in anyone else's will,like that's the whole key,
isn't it To be able to acceptand embrace each other for our
(35:07):
beliefs and um?
And I think that I, you knowhow inner healing resonates
throughout the collective andthroughout the entire world, and
we're healing the family treeand the generations and the
ancestors.
So I know that if I continue onmy path, it's, it's opening the
doors for other people too.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Beautiful.
Well, that is our last question, and, as we were talking, is
there something you may haveforgotten or something that you
want to share with the listeners?
The floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I believe that I feel like I've covered everything.
Yeah, I don't think there'sanything else coming up.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
All right.
Wonderful wonderful and I mightadd that you know I've shared
that I have dogs and before westarted I had mentioned about.
I can always tell when someonehas really good energy because
of the dogs come in and they'reall out cold, they are snoring,
they're in a deep sleep, so theyvery feel very at home with
(36:02):
your energy.
So if you want someone whoworks with your animals, check
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Speaker 3 (36:15):
Check out Kama here, the your cavalier King Charles
approved.
I love that and, yeah, theanimal Reiki too it's it's um in
person or or distance as well,so you don't have to be in Santa
Fe for that.
And one thing also that I'vebeen putting my information out
there for is doing Reiki formissing pets as well missing
missing animal companions, andso if you know or see of anyone
that has a missing pet, sign up.
(36:35):
I can always call on the nameand kind of try to give them the
energy of guiding them home.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I don't know if it's the same way where you are
, even though we're pretty close.
There's so many dogs roaminghere.
I've never seen anything in mylife, just so many.
And I have a yoga studio andthere's four out there that are
just and I'm sure someone ownsthem, but day and night it's so
heartbreaking driving, and youknow I keep treats in my Jeep so
(37:03):
that I can get them out of theroad.
I just it's just.
I don't know if I'll ever getused to it and when I came here,
that's what inspired me to dothe animal Reiki to help be of
service for them.
So all right, well, thank youso much for taking time out of
your very busy schedule fortaking this journey with me.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
All right, my wonderful listeners, If you want
to reach outwwwreadysetreikicom, If you have
a question that you'd likefeatured on the podcast, maybe
it'll be on.
So I'm Tracy Seawright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki ©
(37:46):
transcript Emily Beynon.
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